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Walsall Corporation proposes to run a bus service between Bloxwich and Great Barr.
Blackpool Corporation is to charge £5 per year for official passes on the corporation trams and buses.
The highways committee of Camberwell Borough Council recommends the provision of traffic signals at a cost of £2,114.
Blackpool borough engineer is to prepare plans for the erection of a centralized transport depot at Blundell Street.
The streets committee of Glasgow Corporation is considering proposals for the provision of traffic signals at a total cost of £30,000.
Fiat (England), Ltd., has removed its sales department from Lancelot Road, Wembley, to 43-44, Albemarle Street, London, W.1. The spares and repairs depot remains at Wembley.
The Albion Drop Forgings Co., Ltd., Foleshill, Coventry, has issued a booklet dealing with its drop forgings. It is put together in an interesting manner and contains some useful, general matter on forgings.
Norris, Henty and Gardners, Ltd., Patricroft, Manchester, has issued a booklet giving some typical examples of Gardner oil-engined vehicles, from which a good idea of the popularity enjoyed by this class of unit is quickly gained.
There were 1,813 commercial vehicles In use in Jamaica during 1932.
At the end of 1932 there were 171 commercial vehicles in use hi the B,ah am as Islands.
Northampton Corporation's transport department reports a loss of £3,646 for the past 12 months.
Offices and workshops are to be erected in 'Westfield, Newport (I.O.W.), by the Southern Vectis Omnibus Co., Ltd.
The highways committee of Middlesex County Council is to provide automatic traffic signals on the Great West Road, at a cost of 16,623.
The transport committee of Stocktonon-Tees Corporation reports a net deficiency of £9,084, for the past year, on the transport undertaking.
Trojan, Ltd., Purley Way, Croydon, advises us that it has received another order—the 10th—from Brooke, Bond and Co., Ltd., for Trojan vans,
Members of the Stalybridge, Mossley and Hyde Joint Tramways and Electricity Board recently visited Basingstoke for an inspection of the works of John I. Thornycroft and Co., Ltd.
Owing to the increase in the size of its fleet and the amount of traffic handled, Fred Cook (Transport), Ltd., Pickering Road, Hull, has opened a new London office-at 89, Borough High Street, London Bridge, S.E.j..